Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Here begins our 2021 adventure. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. Input The input will contain several test cases (not more than 10).

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. Vitaly Friedman. Quick Wins.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.) But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. WebGPU is likely to ship in Chrome in late 2021. This is as it should be.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. As we said in 2021, " 4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage." Regulatory roadblocks are still being cleared. You'll have to read on for what it is!

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